KEY STEPS

UNFCCC expert meeting on socio-economic information under the Nairobi work programme on impacts,
vulnerability and adaptation to climate change

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
10 to 12 March 2008

Introduction and overview

The SBSTA requested the secretariat to organize, under the guidance of the Chair of SBSTA, an expert
meeting, before its twenty-eighth session, on ways and means to improve the integration of socio-economic
information into impact and vulnerability assessments, including as they relate to adaptation
planning. The SBSTA requested the secretariat to take into into account information and views
from Parties and relevant organizations on matters relating to the availability of information on the
socio-economic aspects of climate change and improving the integration of socio-economic information into
impact and vulnerability assessments, including information on the development of socio-economic scenarios
and for understanding adaptive capacity, including:

Existing approaches and available data

Needs, gaps, barriers and constraints

Ways and means to improve availability and access to relevant information, including information on
costs and benefits, as well as its better integration into impact and vulnerability assessments